(via synecdoche)
I don’t care how shallow it sounds, it’s the fucking truth. I love that book.
Favorite Novel of All-Time reblog.
I’m pretty sure the whole point of the novel is this ISN’T true.
It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, though. The kind of people who believe it often are better off with the kind of people who also believe it, though music taste has very little to do with that.
I am off to CHICAGO today, until Friday. Here is a record made by Mr Frankie Knuckles of that fair city. It’s called “Your Love”.
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Pitchfork: Guest Lists: Memory Tapes So jealous he had that and all I had was the lously Fisher-Price cassette player. On the other hand, I could make my own a cappella songs. I was really into MC Hammer and r&b. (via desnoise) Oh wow, he likes The Book Of The New Sun - good for him! (There are loads of robots and spaceships in it, though). I have never actually heard the Memory Tapes but I will look more fondly on them now. |
Don’t Think Twice (Messengers remix) – J.Period & K’NAAN
The hardcore Dylan fans will be disgusted by J.Period and K’Naan’s Bob Dylan remix album but I think it’s a brilliant collision of hip-hop beats and Dylan’s best songs. The choice of interview clips is also genius.
The Messengers have also done whole remix albums dedicted to Fela Kuti and Bob Marley but Bob Dylan is the biggest distance to leap for them and that’s what makes it the best of the three. Hop over here and you can download them for free.
Definitely this is more worthy folkster than wild mercury sound, but this hardcore-ish Dylan fan likes it well enough. The beats, at least: matching the grain of your voice against Dylan’s is a fool’s errand. Will download the free mixtape.
I was still contriving a narrative about my tastes, even if I didn’t necessarily share it with anyone. Still it is a very seductive idea, that our taste is like a fingerprint, a snowflake, and that when we find out fully what it really is, we see at last, concretely, how ineffable our soul is. We listen to Pandora, click the thumbs up or down to approve songs, let the formulas work their magic, and continue to attenuate our authentic self in pure isolation.
Good Popmatters piece on Pandora and the “ideological fiction” of music taste. A whole bunch of my Poptimist columns in Pitchfork have touched on this - without mentioning Zizek, I must admit.
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
EDIT: This is my Pitchfork review doing a number on my last.fm stats :) Not that DD don’t deserve a 40-play session every once in a while.
and ding! already been called humorless and over-analytical. i may need to pull out a bingo card for this.
It’s the stuff that “doesn’t need to be analysed” that’s ALWAYS the most interesting anyway!
